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Extracting the stone of madness

Posted on 31 May 2017 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — 1 Comment

Extracting the Stone of Madness, Hieronymus Bosch c. 1494, Museo del Prado, Madrid Surgery to ‘treat’ mental illness 500 years ago was no joke. You would have a hole drilled into your skull to take the madness out. Is this what Alejandra…

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The Queue

Posted on 24 May 2017 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — 1 Comment

Every day, the queue gets longer. More and more people need documents: proof of citizenship, exemptions, permissions, documents with forms to get the other documents for the other forms. So they come to the Gate, and wait. They wait in…

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Mascha Kaléko: a new bilingual edition

Posted on 17 May 2017 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — Leave a comment

This new and fully bilingual edition of the Poems of Mascha Kaléko, out in time for the 110th anniversary of her birth, is a good introduction in English to one of my favourite German poets, who deserves to be more…

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Finland 100: Minna Canth

Posted on 10 May 2017 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — 1 Comment

This beautiful book (cover design by Anu Tuominen) is one of 12 classics republished by WSOY to celebrate Finland’s 100th anniversary. Minna Canth, the author of Työmiehen vaimo/The worker’s wife, died 120 years ago this Friday, so she didn’t live to…

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The Proof

Posted on 3 May 2017 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — 1 Comment

Mostly, I’m just really glad I’m not sixteen any more. The crushing insecurity then is exacerbated by 24/7 bullying on social media now – not to mention the knife crime, the violence, who’d want it? Marcia doesn’t seem to like it much…

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